Slideshow: This Summer at Bates
July and August on a college campus can seem peaceful, even sleepy.
But here’s a closer look at what happens when all those deadlines and stop-starts of the school year give way to summer’s true bounty: uninterrupted time for scholars and proteges to research and learn, explore and grow — leaps both intellectual and physical.
From Ann Arbor to West Yorkshire, from Stonington to Boston, and here in Lewiston and Auburn, here’s summer at Bates.
Professor of Physics Hong Lin works with intern Max Huang ’18 of Suzhou, China, in her Carnegie Science Hall lab. Lin and her student team investigated characteristics of instabilities in vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Cristopher Thompson '19 of Macon, Ga., poses for a portrait at the Boys and Girls Club of Auburn, where he worked with young people this summer supported by a fellowship from the Harward Center for Community Partnerships. (Josh Kuckens/Bates College)
After intentionally skimming the surface of the Androscoggin River, a hot air balloon begins to rise during an early-morning launch of the Great Falls Balloon Festival on Aug. 21. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Ben Lizotte and Monica McCusker listen to Frank Sinatra sing “Autumn in New York,” on the College Store’s new audio setup in 65 Campus Ave. “I didn’t want to scare anybody away with the first song, so I kept it low-key," said Lizotte, a senior audio visual analyst for Information and Library Services. McCusker is the store’s office coordinator. (Phyllis Graber Jensen/Bates College)
Annakay Wright ’17, a women and gender studies major from Brooklyn, N.Y., poses with Assistant Professor of English Victor Mendoza at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where she researched the topic “Trans Panic in North Carolina Bathroom Laws,” with funding from the Creating Connections Consortium, colleges and universities seeking to increase faculty diversity in higher education. (Daryl Marshke/University of Michigan for Bates College)
